It may be mentioned in this connection that suicide from erotic motives among primitive peoples occurs chiefly among women (_Zeitschrift fuer Sozialwissenschaft_, 1899, p.

578).

Not a few savages possess love-poems, as, for instance, the Suahali (Velten, in his _Prosa und Poesie der Suahali_, devotes a section to love-poems reproduced in the Suahali language).

D.G.Brinton, in an interesting paper on "The Conception of Love in Some American Languages" (_Proceedings American Philosophical Society_, vol.
xxiii, p.

546, 1886) states that the words for love in these languages reveal four main ways of expressing the conception: (1) inarticulate cries of emotion; (2) assertions of sameness or similarity; (3) assertions of conjunction or union; (4) assertions of a wish, desire, a longing.